Surge

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Surge is a single player Galagalike game, made in 48 hours.

I made all of the artwork, music and game code from scratch.

Note:

If anyone experiences any stability/technical issues at all when playing let me know and I will try to patch it ASAP.

Story:

An ancient mechanical menace has awoken, and its hell bent on destroying earth. You are the last hope for humanity. One of the last remaining pilots, your mission is to fight through the hordes and reach 'the beacon', a device of unimaginable power. Its a suicide mission, but then... thats what you signed up for.

Controls:

Press X to shoot

Press Left/Right to move

Goals:

Blast everything that moves

Avoid being blasted

Collect power-ups

Technical:

Surge is written in C++, using the SDL2 and SDL_Mixer libraries.

While all the game code was written from scratch, I used my small game framework to deal with some of the boiler plate.

The executable provided is built for x86_64.

If you want to build from source you will require: